Stability and turbulent transport in Taylor-Couette flow from analysis of experimental data

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Dubrulle, B ^a   Dauchot, O ^a   Daviaud, F ^a   Longaretti, P Y ^a   Richard, D ^b   Zahn, J P ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FLOW CONTROL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LAMINAR FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONTROL PARAMETERS; LAMINAR SHEAR RATIO; ROTATING SHEAR FLOW; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW; TURBULENT VISCOSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STABILITY; TAYLOR-COUETTE FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 27144516352     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2008999     Document Type: Article

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